Badby | Badebi: Crowland Abbey. Mill. Pretty; ironstone. |
Prehistoric earthworks.
Barby
| Berchebi: Payne from William Peverel. |
Barford
| Bereford(e): Oslac White with 2 freemen from the king. Mill. |
Barnack
| Bernac: Odbert from William FitzAnsculf. |
Barnack Rag, quarried here from Roman times to the 18th century, was used to build cathedrals, abbeys and the local Saxon church; Saxon tower.
Barnwell
| Bernewelle: King's land; Ramsey Abbey. 2 mills. |
Remains of 13th century castle in the grounds of Tudor Barnwell Castle.
Barton Seagrave
| Bertone: Robert from Bishop of Coutances. 2 mills. |
Expanding; Queen Anne rectory; Georgian hall.
Benefield
| Benefeld: Richard the Artificer. |
Medieval castle site.
Billing
| Bel(l)inge / Bellica: Count of Mortain; Gunfrid de Chocques; Gilbert de Cook. 2 mills. |
District of Bellinge, containing former villages of Great and Little Billing, now lost among housing estates. Great Billing church was consecrated in 1759 because it was thought the Devil had destroyed its spire.
Blakesley
| Baculveslea / Blachesleuue / Blaculveslea / Blaculveslei: King's land; Saegrim from Count of Mortain; Earl Hugh; Walter from William Peverel. Mill. |
The poet John Dryden lived here.
Blatherwycke
| Blarewiche: Norman from Robert de Bucy. Mill. |
Lake.
Blisworth
| Blidesworde: William Peverel. Mill. |
Grand Union Canal.
Boddington
| Botendone: Leofwin from Count of Mortain; Robert from Earl Hugh. |
Now 2 hamlets, Lower and Upper Boddington.
Boughton
| Bochetone / Buchedone / Buchetone / Buchenho: Godwin the priest from the king; Robert from Robert de Bucy; Countess Judith and Gerard from her. |
On the edge of suburban Northampton.
Boughton (in Weekley)
| Boctone: St. Edmund's Abbey; Gunfrid de Chocques. Mill. |
17th century Boughton House; grounds by Le Notre.
Bozeat
| Bosieta / Bosiete: Lancelin and William Peverel; Thurstan and Winemar from Countess Judith. |
Ironstone.
Brackley
| Brachelai: King's land. Church, mill. |
Market town.
Bradden
| Bradene: William frrom Robert de Bucy; David. |
Manor house.
Brafield on the Green
| Brache(s)feld / Bragefelde: William from Bishop of Bayeux; Countess Judith and Winemar from her. |
Brampton
| Brantone: Wulfmer from the Count of Mortain. Mill. |
2 adjoining hamlets, Chapel and Church Brampton.
Brampton Ash
| Brantone: Hildwin from Robert de Tosny; Hugh from Robert de Bucy; Countess Judith. |
Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, is said to have won the manor while gambling with a member of the Norwich family, who had held it since 1427.
Braunston
| Brandestone: William from Bishop of Bayeux; Walter d'Aincourt. Mill. |
Canalside.
Braybrooke
| Badebroc / Baiebroc / Bradebroc: St. Edmund's Abbey; Grestain Abbey; Robert de Vessey; Hugh from Robert de Bucy. |
Medieval castle earthworks.
Brigstock
| Bricstoc: King's land. Mill. |
Saxon church tower; medieval manor; market cross.
Brington
| Brin(in)tone: Count of Mortain; William Peverel. |
Now 2 villages, Little Brington, with a Roman road, and Great Brington.
Brixworth
| Briclesworde: King's land; 2 mills, priest. |
Large; Saxon church, probably the finest surviving 7th century building north of the Alps.
Brockhall
| Brocole: Count of Mortain. |
Jacobean manor house; Elizabethan hall.
Broughton
| Burtone: King's land; Countess Judith. |
Large; industrial.
Bugbrooke
| Buchebroc(h): Count of Mortain. 2 mills. |
Mill; manor house.
Burghley
| Burglea: Geoffrey from Peterborough Abbey. |
Elizabethan Burghley House, home of the Cecil family since c.1520.
Burton Latimer
| Burtone: Walkelin and Richard from Bishop of Coutances; Guy de Raimbeaucourt. 2 mills. |
Small industrial town; mill.
Byfield
| Bifelde / Bivelde: Ivo from Hugh de Grandmesnil; Robert from Earl Hugh. |
Manor house.
